Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on 10 August 2014

Dive Details

Location

Date

10 August 2014

Time

7:41am - 8:38am

Details

Conditions today at The Monument were pretty good compared to yesterday although it was overcast which made it quite cold. We waded out in the little bay around the corner from the flagpoles and descended to the sponge garden. The visibility was very good... at least 10 metres. We then headed towards The Steps.

We went to the sand line and followed the wall along. We went to the area where we used to see "Honey" and the other pot-bellied seahorses. On the way Sheree was spotting nudibranchs and cuttlefish. We went a little past the seahorse area and then turned and headed back towards The Monument. On the way back, Sheree pointed out a couple of weedy seadragons.

We came up from the sand line and swam over the reef. At Split Rock Sheree pointed out a reaper cuttlefish and a small giant cuttlefish. We had now seen all three species of cuttlefish on the one dive: reaper, mourning and giant. Sheree tried very hard to find some pygmy pipehorse but we were lucky enough to find "Oliver", the orange form undescribed angler, on the other side of the rock I'd seen him last week.

We were getting cold and so stared heading back to the entry point. On the way we found a crested horn (Port Jackson) shark munching on a regular Port Jackson shark egg. After our safety stop we exited at the entry point.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

56 minutes

Maximum depth

13.1 m

Average depth

10.0 m

Water temperature

15.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

Low

1:40am

0.16m

High

7:37am

1.50m

Low

1:23pm

0.29m

High

7:53pm

2.01m

Video

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

Photographs

Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.